Sad it didn’t work out… but if the “new” drive only rebooted with the “old” data on it, presumable the “old drive” may not be physically dying.
Copying files, not cloning, after creating a new file system (aka format) one would think should remove alleged corruption. If there’s something askew within the data files… that’s not really a disk problem. Tablo should just say not a valid -what ever.
but what ya gonna do.
It does seem coincidental a minority of users have failed drives or connectivity issues when they upgrade firmware… while it seem the vast overwhelming majority are trouble free.
If you have fear of loosing shows, someone has make a backup script for tablo devices - Backup-tablo.sh - Backup all recorded shows from a Tablo